Coordinators: Professor Ray Cas (MSc), Dr Ian Nicholls (PhD)
Studies toward a masters degree in the School of Geosciences
may be undertaken on the basis of a research project alone, a combination of
research project and coursework (typically >70 per cent research) or, in
limited areas of interest, by coursework alone. A wide range of coursework
units in two or five-day formats suitable for masters students is offered by
the member departments/schools of the joint La Trobe University/ University of
Melbourne/Monash University cooperative Victorian Institute of Earth and
Planetary Sciences (VIEPS). The PhD program is based on a thesis research
project alone, but participation in seminar series is expected. PhD students
may also take, not for credit, recommended short courses offered by VIEPS. Both
masters and PhD students may take part in courses offered by other groups, such
as the G3 centres for ore deposits studies (universities of Western Australia
and Tasmania, and James Cook University), under arrangement of the Minerals
Council of Australia- funded National Geosciences Teaching Network.
Masters and PhD projects are often, but not exclusively, associated with the
recognised areas of research strength within the School of Geosciences:
The last two research strengths are emphasised within the Australian Crustal Research Centre (ACRC), recognised as a Science faculty research centre and partly supported by Monash University central funds and the minerals exploration industry.
A wide range of geophysical, geochemical and computing facilities is available to postgraduate students. These are either housed within Monash Geosciences (geophysics equipment; stable isotope and ICP-MS based trace element analysis facilities and sample preparation laboratories) or are accessible within other VIEPS-member departments/schools (electron microprobe and analytical scanning electron microscope facilities; noble gas laboratory; multi-collector ICP-MS laboratory; thermal ionisation mass spectrometry laboratory).
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